What's the Most You Have Spent (or Would Spend) on One Card?

[bnorth]

I have bought a few in the $500-$600 range but try my best to stay under $100 per card. I would much rather have 15 beaters that I paid $50-$100 each for than 1 card in much better condition that costs $1000.

[TUM301]

For me the highest I`ve ever gone in 12+ years of collecting is 1500.00 dollars. Have promised myself, and so far so good, if ever to go higher will sell items to raise needed funds. Now if a Green Cobb, or an E 90-1 Cy Young suddenly appeared well...........................................

[Corporal Lance Boil]

The most I have spent is somewhere a little shy of $700.

There are several cards I will need that are in the $10-20K range to complete sets, but at this point I can't stomach the opportunity cost. Everytime I consider it I remember that the same amount of money would build the poolhouse, finish off the upper garage, wallpaper the livingroom, etc.

[Bored5000]

The most I ever spent on a single card was a little over $1,000 for the card in my avatar. As I have written on here before, I like collecting auto racing cards because there are only a handful of cards that sell for over $500 individually. "Lorenzen with car" is a legendary rarity and probably the most valuable racing card in the hobby. My personal limit had always been $1,000, but I put in a snipe that slightly exceeded that when the card showed up on eBay.

There are 4-5 non-racing cards on my want list that I would go $1,200-1,500 for if they ever showed up at auction, however.

[Dpeck100]

The responses are not what I expected. I assumed more collectors on this forum bought higher priced cards.

My most so far is $3,050.00.

The card I would pay the most for has never graded a 10 but if one ever hit it would blow away my most expensive purchase.

[guy3050]

$1000 for this card

CobbFront_zpsb1cf6035 by Guy Bourque, on Flickr

[Topnotchsy]

Originally Posted by Dpeck100

The responses are not what I expected. I assumed more collectors on this forum bought higher priced cards.

My most so far is $3,050.00.

The card I would pay the most for has never graded a 10 but if one ever hit it would blow away my most expensive purchase.

In the poll results, 10% have spent $50,000 or more on a card, and 25% have spent 10K. That's some pretty serious numbers.

Many of the highest spenders have little interest in others knowing how much they spent.

I've never been anywhere near those numbers, but my most important criteria is whether I believe I could recoup the money if I need to sell the item. I try to buy items that I believe will maintain their value over time.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I would much rather have 15 beaters that I paid $50-$100 each for than 1 card in much better condition that costs $1000.

Me too when it comes to vintage baseball cards. Though I try to get nice looking lower grade cards.